Josh Townsend

Josh Townsend is a Sr. Technical Marketing Architect in VMware’s Integrated Systems Business Unit, where he focuses on VMware Cloud Foundation and other Software Defined Data Center technologies. Josh is a technology leader with 15 years of hands-on experience in VMware virtualization, storage design, Microsoft technologies and network infrastructure as a customer, consultant and VMware partner. He holds several technical certifications, including VCP, VCAP5-DCD & VCAP5-DTD. Josh is active in the Washington DC VMUG and has been recognized as a community leader through the vExpert and EMC Elect programs. In his spare time, Josh serves as a volunteer firefighter and emergency medical responder with Ashburn Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department - in the heart of the Washington DC area’s high tech corridor and data center alley. Follow Josh on Twitter @joshuatownsend

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VMware Cloud Foundation Keeps Good Company

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We are pleased to announce that VMware Cloud Foundation has been recognized as a Finalist in CRN’s 2019 Products of the Year in the Hybrid Cloud category.  This recognition shows the building momentum behind Cloud Foundation and a growing preference for a hybrid cloud strategy among IT leaders.  But recognition for being a finalist in Read more...

Get the Facts about VMware Cloud Foundation – Part 3

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Welcome to part three of our #VCFacts series, where we’re addressing frequently asked questions and misnomers about Cloud Foundation with hard data points and clarifying examples. In part one, we explained why Cloud Foundation is cost-effective, why its components rank at the top of their respective categories and deep-dived into its endless automation capabilities. Last Read more...

Get the Facts about VMware Cloud Foundation – Part 2

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Market leaders are using Cloud Foundation to transition to hybrid cloud, leveraging an integrated cloud infrastructure that provides a consistent operational model. IT staffers understand the importance of following VMware’s lead to a simple, secure, and agile path to a hybrid cloud. Although IT decision-makers are familiar with the benefits of Cloud Foundation, they still Read more...

Get the Facts about VMware Cloud Foundation – Part 1

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Cloud Foundation adoption is skyrocketing in tandem with the growing movement toward the hybrid cloud. IT decision-makers across enterprises now understand that the VMware products they know and love alone are in fact better together than they ever were apart—delivering consistent, simple, secure and agile cloud infrastructure so you can enjoy the flexibility of the Read more...

Announcing VMware Cloud Foundation 3.5

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Today at VMworld EMEA 2018, we are announcing VMware Cloud Foundation 3.5.  VMware Cloud Foundation continues to provide the simplest way to build an integrated hybrid cloud by delivering a complete set of software-defined services for compute, storage, networking, security, and cloud management to run enterprise apps – traditional or containerized – in private or Read more...

Announcing VMware Cloud Foundation 3.0 General Availability

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I am pleased to announce that VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 3.0 is now generally available (GA)!  We introduced VCF 3.0 at VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas. This release brings enhanced flexibility and scalability, new options to enable hybrid cloud and a brand new user interface.  Let’s have a brief look at some of the new Read more...

Patching Made Easy with VMware Cloud Foundation

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A common challenge faced by every IT department is keeping up with the inevitable and never-ending flow of software updates. This becomes even more critical in a modern Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC), where compute, network and storage virtualization are interwoven into a unified data center fabric. Special attention is needed to ensure that not only Read more...

Cloud Foundation 2.3.1 Reaches General Availability

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VMware is pleased to announce the general availability of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 2.3.1. We’ve introduced several new features and provided fixes for issues identified in previous releases. I’d like to present a quick overview of the new features in Cloud Foundation 2.3.1 in this article. New hardware compatibility support is a significant feature of Read more...
A conceptual diagram of a VMware Cloud Foundation VDI Workload Domain

Automating Horizon 7 Deployments with VMware Cloud Foundation

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VMware Cloud Foundation simplifies the deployment of private cloud infrastructure, turning lengthy and complex implementations into fully automated workflows. When the workflow is complete, customers have a complete vSphere + vSAN + NSX infrastructure that is ready to run business workloads, including Horizon 7 for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). In Cloud Foundation, business workloads are Read more...
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How VMware Cloud Foundation Makes it Easy to Deploy Infrastructure

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If you visit the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) product page on VMware.com, you’ll learn that “VMware Cloud Foundation is the unified SDDC platform that brings together VMware vSphere, vSAN, and NSX into a natively integrated stack to deliver enterprise-ready cloud infrastructure for the private and public cloud.” Now, you may be thinking that means that Read more...